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This does not mention the religious Miṣr al-Fatat party founded by
Aḥmad Ḥussain in the 1930s, which held a hostile attitude toward the Jews.
Shalash, The Freemasons in Egypt, 82; Siham Naṣṣar, Mawaqif al-Ṣaḥafa al-
Miṣriyya min al-Ṣahyuniyya khilal al-Fatrah bayna 1897–1917 (Cairo: al-Hay ̓a al-
Miṣriyya al- ̔amma lilkitab, 1993), 379.
Regarding this matter, Shalash mentioned that Ṭaha Ḥussain was the
supervisor of Israel Wolfensohn for his doctoral thesis presented to the Acad-
emy of Science at Cairo University, “The Jewish History in the Arab Countries
from the Days of the Jahaliya and the Islamic Period.” Shalash, The Freemasons
in Egypt, 87.
